“Remember the names of your ancestors in memory. Walk as if every tree you pass through in the mountain is a reliquary of their being, a safekeeping for life.” LoveLife QuotesStrengthMountainProtectionEcologyTreesAncestorsAn Inheritance Of LightReliquary Author:Sneha Subramanian Kanta
“The scent of sunlight peers through apexes of mountains and a compost of water hyacinths. A name for each peak, an unfolding in each summit. As you lay awake, dreaming for a hundred years, history speaks back to you: the living tissue in a tree stump, musky wildflowers, open mouths of river-streams in full force, a dab of attar from chandan trees on your wrist.” FamilyHistoryMountainsAncestorsOdeEcopoetryAncestralAn Inheritance Of LightResponsible Mountaineering Author:Sneha Subramanian Kanta
“There is a coastline beyond the mountain and a mountain beyond every ocean. Sky coagulates like blood in your body.” BloodSkyOceanMountainsCoastlineOdeEcopoetryThe BodyAn Inheritance Of Light Author:Sneha Subramanian Kanta
“Animals rise through a slope toward the summit like migratory birds over an amavasya sky. I watch a mountain loop our prayers like an echo through the darkness. A glistening comet appears across the sky, a streak of purple phosphorescence, as a row of earthen lamps lit over a porch.” ColorMountainsSummitEcopoetryCometMigratory BirdsAn Inheritance Of LightAmavasyaPhosphorescence Author:Sneha Subramanian Kanta
“The mountains harness light.” LightLife QuotesMountainPoetry QuotesEcologyEcopoetryAn Inheritance Of Light Author:Sneha Subramanian Kanta